If your healthcare provider prescribes an inhaler for COPD, it's important to know that different types of inhalers have different actions and uses. Some contain bronchodilators to open your airways ...

Some contain bronchodilators to open your airways or deliver a glucocorticoid (steroid) to reduce inflammation. Other inhalers offer a combination of drugs. A COPD inhaler can contain either a ...

Low climate-impact corticosteroid inhalers are as effective as high climate impact inhalers for COPD and asthma outcomes, per ...

Background: There is controversy about whether therapy with inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) modifies the natural history of COPD, characterized by an accelerated decline in FEV 1. Methods ...

The Asthma Society of Ireland has warned that over-use of steroid medication may cause more harm than good. A study has shown ...

Objective: To review the basis for the estimated comparative daily dosages of inhaled corticosteroids for children and adults that are presented in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's ...

Steroid tablets are associated with significant adverse side effects. Short-term use risks sleep disturbance, reflux, ...

including bronchodilators and corticosteroids. This type of nebulizer is also known as a mesh nebulizer. It utilizes high-frequency ultrasonic waves to vaporize medication. It is usually quieter than ...

The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) market in the seven major markets (7MM: US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, ...

Inhaler preference appeared to vary by age, with pDMI used by more patients aged 75 years and older, and DPI used by more patients aged 40 to 60 years. Patients with asthma and chronic obstructive ...